Pope Scheduled for 2 Poland Trips in ‘91, Bishops Say
Pope John Paul II will visit his homeland twice next year to help the Polish people give thanks for the political change sweeping Eastern Europe, the country’s bishops said Saturday.
The Pope will make his fourth pilgrimage home in June, 1991, then return in August to host young Catholics from all over the world at the shrine of the Black Madonna in the southern city of Czestochowa, the bishops said.
In a communique carried by the Polish news agency PAP, the draft program of the pilgrimage includes a visit to 11 cities in eastern and central Poland, including Warsaw. It gives only partial dates for the visit.
The bishops said the people will mark the occasion to thank God and the Pope for the regained freedom of Poland and other areas of Eastern Europe.
“(The visit) will be a great thanksgiving to God for the recovered freedom as well as thankfulness to the Holy Father for his tremendous contribution to the changes which have taken place in Poland and in central and eastern Europe,” the statement said.
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